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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Breve
Greek layer of language
Old English
Tilde
2. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Percentile/ percentile rank
Phonics approach
IEP
3. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Towre
Curriculum referenced tests
Multi-Sensory Approach
Greek layer of language
4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Macron
WIATII
Chall's Stage 3
Three Layers of Language
5. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Modification
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Chall's Stage 1
Dyslexia
6. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Oral Language
Synthetic Instruction
7. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Attention
Macron
Grade equivalents
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
8. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
James Hinshelwood
Chall's Stage 0
Breve
Standard score
9. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cognition
Rate
Kinesthetic
Cedilla
10. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
IEP
Analytic
Components of Reading Instruction
Auditory Processing
11. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
IDEA
VV
Adolf Kusmaul
Keith Stanovich
12. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Syntax
Standard score
Anna Gillingham
Analytic
13. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Grade equivalents
Curriculum referenced tests
Tilde
Orthography
14. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Derivative
Diagnostic Teaching
Criterion-Referenced Test
Standardized test
15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Rate
Percentile
Receptive language
Keith Stanovich
16. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Phonemic/ decodable words
Pre-English
Modern English
17. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Orthography
Chall's Stage 4
CTOPP
Linguistic Method
18. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Tilde
Ability
Pre-English
Frank Smith
19. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Syllable Instruction
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonics approach
20. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Diagnostic tests
Tactile
Auditory Processing
VAKT
21. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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22. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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23. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Linguistic Method
Social language
Pre-English
Macron
24. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Chall's Stage 4
Academic Achievement Tests
Vowel Digraph
Syntax
25. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Universal Screening
Morpheme
ADHD
26. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Raw score
Digraph
Joe Torgesen
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
27. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Phonemic/ decodable words
Achievement test
Universal Screening
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Accommodation
Open Syllable
Latin layer of language
Keith Stanovich
29. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Great Vowel Shift
IDEA
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Accent
30. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Multisensory
Chall's Stage 3
Cognition
Modification
31. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Derived Score
Criterion referenced tests
Syllable Instruction
RTI
32. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Trigraph
SBOE
Auditory Processing
33. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Chall's Stage 5
Greek layer of language
Middle English
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
34. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Curriculum referenced tests
Suffix
Diphthong
Greek layer of language
35. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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36. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Three Layers of Language
Attention
Reading Comprehension Support
Accuracy
37. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Standard deviation
Visual Learners
Consonant
Pre-English
38. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Composite Score
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Whole Language
39. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Orthography
Visual Processing
Percentile/ percentile rank
Grade equivalents
40. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Texas Education Code 28.06
Chall's Stage 0
Achievement test
GORT
41. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
V >
Visual Learners
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Phonics
42. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Social language
Diphthong
Affix
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
43. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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44. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
WRAT
Cedilla
Ability
Comprehension
45. English as a second language
ESL
WIATII
IDEA
Standard deviation
46. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
SBOE
Derivative
Auditory Processing
47. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
ESL
Linguistic Method
Breve
Standard score
48. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Base Word
Samuel T. Orton
Progress Monitoring
49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Three Layers of Language
Mathew Effect
Syllable Instruction
Frank Smith
50. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Latin layer of language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Phonics approach
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...